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"Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion."
"What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian."
"Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?"
"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
"Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."
"Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers."
"To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker."
"According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude."
"The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality."
"If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him."
"It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed."
"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."
"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness."
"Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best."
"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values."
"A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods."
